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American Experience: where we’ve come from
On a warm summer day in 1946 I find myself, somewhat improbably, at the helm of a U.S. Navy ocean tug, threading ...One for the money: Rukeyser’s Friday evening pavane
One evening in London, in 1966, Anne Darlington, a Johns Hopkins graduate on a Fulbright Fellowship, was surprised to see Louis Rukeyser, ...‘Frontline’s first happy ending, ever’
At first glance, the girding storyline is whether Darrel and Juanita Buschkoetter, a farming couple raising three young daughters in Lawrence, Neb., ...Cooking star pays plaintiffs in sexual abuse suits
In most sexual abuse cases, it’s one person’s word against another’s. In the Frugal Gourmet’s case, it was his word against 20 ...Empowered to cook: Julia gives us the courage, shows us her joy
The publication last year of a 700-page, hugely detailed biography of Julia Child (Appetite for Life — Julia Child by Noel Riley Fitch, Doubleday) ...Mo’ better radio
Believe it or not, there's a stone tablet full of radio principles guiding This American Life. Ira Glass laid them out in a talk ...CTW finds its cable outlet: a venture with Nickelodeon
In a partnership that aims to position educational children’s programs at the forefront of the digital cable movement, Viacom’s Nickelodeon cable network ...Ambrosino and ‘Nova’: making stories that go ‘bang’
In the first of May in 1971, Michael Ambrosino sat at his desk at 25 Wetherby Gardens in London writing a six-page, ...Seven years in a ‘dynamic environment’
Cecily Truett and Larry Lancit rolled the dice. In the spring of 1991, they took their production company and its best known ...Funny and civilized Frank Muir: patron of Pythons and radio games
Hands-up, all those who listen regularly to My Music, the half-hour radio panel game produced by the BBC and distributed by WFMT-FM in Chicago ...Eh-oh!
Over the hills and far away, Teletubbies come to play. In Teletubbyland, a lush green landscape of undulating hills spotted with clumps of bright ...Fred Wiseman’s novelistic samplings of reality
As I write these words, Frederick Wiseman’s 30th film, Public Housing, is about to be broadcast, Dec. 1 [1998], through PBS, the national network ...We’ll look back on this old Barney: an early input-output gizmo you could hug
Dolls have talked for years, but it was Microsoft’s ActiMates Interactive Barney that became a full-fledged peripheral for the computer–with hints of ...Teletubbies in Britain: craze, controversy and consumer frenzy
Teletubbies haven’t officially landed in the U.S. public TV schedule yet, but they’ve already roused controversy in Britain and landed a great big ...‘Great Performances’ team brought stage virtuosos into the videoscape
Twenty-five years ago this week, public TV first aired Great Performances, its major performing arts showcase. And just in time for the anniversary, CPB ...
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